Huntley Fitzpatrick is an American author of young adult (YA) fiction. She grew up in a small coastal town in Connecticut, wanting to be a writer. She graduated from Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts in 1981, and attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Fitzpatrick worked as an editor in academic publishing and as an editor on teen titles at Harlequin before becoming a full-time YA writer. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their six children.